"Wyatt, it's time to go home now." Piper said as she reached down into Connor's crib where both he and Connor were taking their afternoon nap.
"No" he said and then orbed back next to Wyatt.
"Yes," Piper answered echoing her son's tone. "It's time to go home now, you'll see your friend again."
"Okay, bye-bye Connor." Connor sat up with his thumb in his mouth, and waved back at Wyatt.
After the Halliwells had left, it took Angel a while to get his son back to sleep, but when he did it was well worth it, since it was a rare time right now when both his son and his newborn daughter were both asleep at the moment.
Angel left his sleeping children, and went into their bedroom where Buffy was sleeping. These days neither of them got much of a chance to sleep, so Angel went to lay down next to her.
Just as he was about to sleep. He was jerked into alertness by Connor's screams. Not the normal screams, but one that he only heard from his son when something was really wrong. Buffy had heard it too, and they both rushed in to find two strange men, one each holding one of their children.
"Put them down." Buffy told the men.
"You'd better do as she says, you guys must not know that this woman is the slayer, and that you are holding our children. And if anything happens to them, you can't run from the carnage that we are capable of. However if you put them down, we just might spare you from information of who sent you." At the realization of who they were dealing with, they put both children back in their beds. As soon as her children were out of the way, Buffy ran forward with all of her slayer speed and threw the two men out of the room and into the hallway. They crashed into the wall knocking them out cold.
The two man came to consciousness in a dark room, an not only were they tied to chairs, but those chairs were bolted to the floor. Obviously these guys were used to holding very scrupulous characters.
"Finally," The petit blond woman exclaimed, "I thought they'd never wake up."
"Well if you hadn't thrown them against the wall so hard…"
"Who's side are you on?"
"Always yours babe."
"So who sent you? They obviously didn't tell you who you were dealing with."
"All he told us that he wanted us to kidnap the children of some competition of his."
"What was this man's name?"
"We don't know. But he kept to talking to himself, like there was someone there that only he could see."
"What did he look like?"
"White, brown hair, dressed in this odd coat which looked like something out of a western."
"Holtz! Doesn't he ever stop. Well, my patience is run out for this man." Buffy ran out of the room, Angel running after her.
"Mind on letting me in on your plan?"
"Yeah, I am getting reinforcements and I am not going to stop until that man is 6 feet under."
"Slayers can't kill humans. I won't allow you to go down such a dark alley. Besides, that man is mine to deal with, I created his vengeance towards me when I destroyed his family. I created that monster in the same way that I created Drusilla. I will end it."
"We will end it together," said Buffy, who's rage had dulled down slightly, "It's just that when I destroyed Sunnydale and activated all of the potentials I told myself that it was all over, I could just be a normal girl, and now…"
"You blame me. I guess it's true, the sins of the father will be visited on the children."
"I don't blame you, your human now and you had nothing to do with what that demon did while looking like you. I just feel like it will never end, we will never find peace, and I will never stop worrying about our children."
"No parent does."
"Not all parents have to worry about Vampires, Demons, and psycho 18th century vampire hunters trying to get their small children if they look away for a second or try to take a nap."
"I had an idea about that, actually," said Fred, who had suddenly appeared behind.
"Where did you come from?" They asked. It was amazing that she was still able to sneak up on them considering that she was about 7 months along now.
"I just heard you screaming from down in the lobby. Anyway, I was talking with Paige, because I was worried about the kids, and mine will be added to them pretty soon, and she said that she has a spell that any level of Witch can do. All you need are these protective crystals, and whenever any sort of demon or vampire enters that space, a loud alarm will go off, in the entire hotel, the lights will blink. It's like a regular anti-theft alarm, only it only works on any demon, vampire, or force of darkness. She said we can alter it to include that it will go off if a human enters with ill-intent in their hearts, although that one is much more complicated, but nothing that Willow can't handle. She restored Angel's soul twice after all." Fred finally finished talking, taking a deep breath.
"Sounds great." Buffy answered, with a sight of relief. "How long till the new security system is up and running?"
"Willow was with me when Paige explained this, she said that she knows where she can get the crystals for the nursery, although to get enough for the entire hotel will take more time. So, within the hour. Just say the word."
Angel sighed, "That's fine. Just the nursery for now will at least ease our minds, but until then Gunn and I will guard the nursery, while Buffy gets some sleep." Buffy started to object, "And there won't be any argument, you haven't gotten more than two hours of sleep at a time since Ellie was born. You won't be any good to anyone if you don't get any sleep."
"You can't make me," Buffy pouted.
"Yes, but you know that I'm right."
In an hour, Willow had returned and set up the Demon alarm system. Just as she finished, Lorne walked into the room causing the thing to go berserk. "Willow!" Buffy screamed, holding her ears, "You couldn't figure it so that Lorne didn't set it off!" At that the noise stopped.
"Just needs a few tweaks." Willow explained, "Trust me."
About 20 minutes later Willow joined the rest of them in the lobby. "Okay it's all…" The alarm went off, "Set… Lorne!"
"I'm right here."
At Lorne's voice they all raced up the stairs to the Nursery, Where they found a weird red and black horned demon, but they also found Wyatt covering himself, Connor and Ellie with his powerful shield. At that moment, Buffy and Angel attacked the demon in perfect harmony, protecting each other and attacking the demon together with perfect harmony. Then with a perfect kick, Buffy, holding Angel's hand, swung around the room and sent the demon flying out the window and back to the street, and landed in front of Angel, who caught her in his arms, the force throwing them both to the floor.
"So do you think that next time we can get in this position because of reasons other than killing demons?" Buffy asked.
"Count on it." Angel answered. Both of their eyes were sparkling, when a cough was heard behind them, reminding them that they were not the only ones in the room. "It looks like our kids have their own guardian angel. Before long I'll have to practice the 'stay away from my daughter' to Wyatt if he's anything like his dad as a whitelighter."
"Don't even joke about something like that." Buffy said, but giggling. "Ellie's a week old, and your already practicing to chase boys away."
"Well, it's better than when Connor was born. He was a day old and he had an enemy list longer than mine."
"Jealous."
"Hardly, Come on guys," Angel said scooping up each toddler in an arm as Buffy carefully picked up Ellie. "We have to go call Piper, She'll be worried. You know eventually you will know how to write and then you will have to write a note to your parents if you decide to Orb to our rescue.
A/N: So, What do you think. PLEASE REVIEW! Sorry about the delay, first vacation and then band camp, I had the internet for about three days in over two weeks. I never thought I would survive. But anyway, I'm moved in my dorm and trying to do as much writing as possible before classes start on Wed. Happy reading, and Happy writing!